Madness in Civilization
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What’s it about?
A sweeping history of madness across 2,500 years, revealing how culture, religion, and science have shaped—and often brutalized—our understanding of insanity.
You’ll learn
- Madness is a concept, not a stable disease
- Asylums were born from reason, not compassion
- Twentieth-century 'cures' were often horrific
- Modern psychiatry risks medicalizing normal life